Demonstration List


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Mechanics

        Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors   

                    Constant Velocity Truck
                    Painted Meter Stick
                    Walking Horse
                    Dissectible Conic Sections
                    Venire Scales

        Motion Along a Straight Line

                    Acceleration vs. Velocity Track
                    Accelerometer
                    Catch a Dollar

        Motion in Two or Three Dimensions

                    Howitzer Tunnel Car
                    Simultaneous Fall
                    Rope and Three Students

        Newton's Laws of Motion

                    Inertia Ball
                    Table Cloth Simulation
                    Hammer and Lead Brick
                    Time of Flight
                    Understanding Tension

        Applications of Newton's Laws

                    Friction Block
                    Terminal Velocity Filters
                    Bed o Nails                                   (Quiktime Video)
                    Pulley System
                    Quarter and Coat Hanger

        Work and Kinetic Energy

      Potential Energy and Energy Conservation

                    High Road/Low Road
                    Loop the Loop
                    Pile Driver
                    Giant Pendulum
                    Propeller Gun
                    Spring Powered Jet
                    Stored Energy Car

      Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions

                    Leaning Tower of Pisa
                    Uphill Cone
                    Center of Mass Demo
                    Kneeling Human/Chair Lift
                    Tipping Block
                    Egg and Sheet
                    Coefficient of Restitution
                    Happy/Sad Balls
                    Double Ball Bounce
                    Balloon Rocket
                    Fire Extinguisher Rocket
                    Liquid Nitrogen Cannon on Cart
                    Water Rocket Toy
                    Newton's Cradle
                    Push/Pull Carts

      Rotation of Rigid Bodies

                    Inertia Wand
                    Inertia Balance Stick
                    Rolling Objects
                    Rotating Balls
                    Broken Ring
                    Anti-Gravity Box
                    The Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat
                    Pennies on a Meter Stick
                    Faster Than g
                    Walking the Spool

        Dynamics of Rotational Motion

                    Ball on String
                    Whirligig
                    Pail of Water
                    Rotating Stool with Dumb Bells
                    Double Wheel System
                    Angular Motion Funnel
                    Yo-yo
                    Old Fashion Top
                    Tops
                    Gyro Wheels
                    Rotating Wheel and Stool
                    Roller Back Bear
                    Double Banshee
                    Tossing the Book
                    Breaking the Broomstick             (Quicktime Video)

        Equilibrium and Elasticity

                    Balancing Bottle
                    Sheer Book

        Gravitation

               Lead and Wood Ball
                    Quarter and Feather


      Periodic Motion

                    Simple Pendulum
                    Stopped Pendulum
                    4 to 1 Pendulum
                    Torsional Pendulum
                    Mass on a spring
                    Damped Harmonic Oscillator
                    Pump a Swing
                    Tacoma Narrows Bridge Film Loop

      Fluid Mechanics

                    Bernoulli’s Floating Ball
                    Ball in Funnel
                    Air Bags
                    Vortex Tube
                    Attracting Sheets
                    Venturi Meter
                    Water Race
                    Magdeburg Hemispheres
                    Plumber’s Friend
                    Atmosphere Cups
                    Crush the Can
                    Atmospheric Bar
                    Surface Tension Bottle
                    Archimedes Boat
                    Archimedes Block
                    Capillary Tubes
                    Cohesion Plates
                    Velocity of Efflux
                    Cartesian Diver
                    Sink or Swim
                    Hydraulic Press
                    Spinning Candles


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Thermodynamics

       Temperature and Heat

                    Convection Tube
                    Heat Convection Race
                    Crush the Soda Can
                    Toilet Seats
                    Heat Box
                    PVT Surfaces
                    Lycopodium Powder

       
Thermal Properties of Matter

                    Crooks Radiometer
                    Water Balloon Heat Capacity
                    Paper Won’t Burn
                    Paper Cup Won’t Burn
                    Drinking Bird
                    Liquid Nitrogen Demos
                            -Smashing Objects
                            -Deflating Balloon
                            -Liquid Oxygen
                            -Banana Hammer
                            -Lead Bell
                            -LN2 Marshmallows

       
The First Law of Thermodynamics

                    Franklin’s Palm Glass
                    Cloud Chamber
                    Liquid Nitrogen Cannon

       
The Second Law of Thermodynamics

                    Bimetal Strip
                    Bimetal Strip with Light Bulb
                    Thermo-Electric Converter
                    Bursting a Balloon


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Waves/Acoustics

        Mechanical Waves

                    Slinky
                    Large Spring
                    Rubber Rope
                    Wave Sticks
                    Transverse Wave by Students
                    Longitudinal Wave by Students

       
Wave Interference and Normal Modes

                    Hoot Tubes
                    Color Tubes
                    Sonometer
                   
       
Sound and Hearing

                    Tuning Forks
                    Music Box
                    Beat Forks
                    Sympathetic Resonance
                    Organ Pipes
                    Slap Tubes
                    Pulling Pitch
                    Vertical Resonance Tube
                    Tap Rods
                    Lead Bell
                    Musical Goblet
                    Doppler Reed
                    Kroogah Tube
                    Noise Makers
                    Clicking Frog
                    Xylophone
                    Sonic Boom


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Electromagnetism

        Electric Charge and Electric Field

                    Electrophorus
                    Rods and Fur
                    Electrostatic Charge by Induction
                    Charge Propelled Cylinder
                    PVC Pipe Pivot
                    Van De Graaff Generator
                    Van De Graaff Streamers
                    Jumping Pie Plates
                    Styrofoam Peanuts
                    Light the Fluorescent Light Bulb
                    Neon Wand

       
Gauss's Law

       
Electric Potential

                    Cathode Ray Tube
                    Light Saber

       
Capacitance and Dielectrics

                    Dissectible condenser / Leyden Jar
                    RC Circuit Demo

      
Current, Resistance, and Electromotive Force

                    Resistance Model
                    Electric Generator
                    Color in a Light Bulb

       
Direct-Current Circuits

                    Series and Parallel Light Bulbs

       
Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces

                    Magnet and Iron Fillings
                    Magnetic Paper Clip Arrow
                    Magnet and Compass

       
Sources of Magnetic Field

                    Iron Filing Domain

       
Electromagnetic Induction

                    Electromagnet
                    Dissectible Electromagnet
                    Pull Apart Electromagnet
                    Meissner Effect
                    Eddy Current Tube
                    Eddy Current Disk
                    Eddy Current Break
                    Jumping Ring
                    Magnetic Spinning Wheel

      
Inductance

                    Flash Bulb Demo

       
Alternating Current

                    Dissectable Transformer

       
Electromagnetic Waves

                    Vibrating Light Bulb


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Optics

        The Nature and Propagation of Light

                    Laser Kit
                    Light Meter
                    Disappearing Glass
                    Water Stream/Light Pipe
                    Flying Human
                    Angle of Incidence vs. Angle of Reflecton
                    Polaroid Sheets
                    Stress Plastic or Glass
                    Straight-line Propagation
                    Diffuse Versus Shiny
                    Prism and Light Source
                    Double Refractive Calcite

      
Geometric Optics

                    False Image
                    Kaleidoscope
                    Parabolic Mirrors
                    Convex and Concave Mirror
                    Tricky Light Bulb
                    Angled Mirrors & Multiple Images

        Optical Instruments

                    Fiber Optic Cable
                    Fresnel Lens

      
Interference

                    Thin Films with Slides
                    Newton’s Rings
                    Thin Films/Bubbles
                    Compact Disk Grating

       
Diffraction

                    Moiré Pattern and Transparencies
                    Diffraction Stand
                    Large Classroom Diffraction Gratings
                    Thin Hair Diffraction
                    Florescent Chalk and Black Light Kit
                    UV Lamp


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Astronomy

        Demos

               Backward and Forward Scattering
                    Pulsar Model
                    Expanding Universe
                    Expanding Universe Balloon
                    Pin Head Earth

        Globes

              
Local Zenith
                    Moon
                    Mars
                    Celestial Sphere
                    Chalkboard Globe
                    Mobile
                    Tabletop Solar System
                    Earth/Sun Model

Modern Physics

        Demonstrations

               Length Contraction Demo
                    Geiger Counter and Samples
               Mouse Trap Chain Reaction
                    Miniature Nuclear Reactor
                    Method of Images

Miscellaneous Supplies

               Variety of Balls
                    Bell
                    Motor
                    Air Flow Meter
                    Play-Doh
                   


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